Moreover, a non-human primate model of cloning, which would be necessary in order to conduct experiments to establish safety before attempting therapeutic experiments in human beings, has yet to be developed (10). (vatican.va)

The American Medical Association, the National Academy of Sciences, the Association of American Universities, and many other medical, scientific, and educational associations endorse therapeutic cloning. (innovations-report.com)

HCPI has urged its supporters and allied organizations, including disease advocates, private citizens, members of biotechnology organizations, physicians, lawyers and members of the scientific research community, to support passage of UN initiatives outlawing human reproductive cloning, but which allow for the promise of SCNT. (innovations-report.com)

The BFS wishes to promote advances in reproductive medicine and supports research into the use of stem cells and their application in the treatment of chronic disease, but this must take place within an ethical framework, and must show responsibility to the wellbeing of all concerned. (sciencemediacentre.org)

No, the cloning of human beings should not be prohibited because the potential for medical accidents or malfeasance is grossly overstated, and the ethical questions raised by detractors are not unique to cloning-indeed, ethical questions attend every scientific advancement. (encyclopedia.com)

In addition to a wide-ranging discussion of cloning, the series will look at the ethical and legal issues surrounding new and developing human reproductive technologies, and how visual representations and the media influence our views of human reproduction as it intersects with technology. (mtholyoke.edu)

The panel stresses, however, that a broad ethical debate must be encouraged so that the public can be prepared to make decisions if human reproductive cloning is some day considered medically safe for mothers and offspring. (georgetown.edu)

In this chapter we attempt to take up this charge to engage in a broad ethical consideration of the merits of cloning-to-produce-children. (georgetown.edu)

But the agricultural aspect of cloning -- the possibility of providing dairy farmers with more and better cows -- was always the primary goal. (uml.edu)

Robl cloned two cows from a bovine named Zita, who produced huge amounts of milk and was ranked as the top cow in the country. (uml.edu)

Robl has also done work that transforms cows into producers of human antibodies. (uml.edu)

By using cloning techniques, and replacing a cow's antibody genes with a human's, researchers can inject the cow with a vaccine, which forces the cows to produce antibodies to fight off the weakened virus. (uml.edu)

On Thursday March 6, at 7:30 p.m., a panel discussion, "In Utero: Imaging and Imagining" will address artistic, scientific, and political considerations in visual depictions of human embryos and fetuses. (mtholyoke.edu)

For example, if both parents carried one copy of a recessive gene for the same heritable disorder, cloning might allow them to ensure that their child does not inherit the known genetic disease (without having to resort to using donor gametes or practicing preimplantation or prenatal genetic diagnosis and elimination of afflicted embryos or fetuses). (georgetown.edu)

This is defined as 'the practice of creating or attempting to create a human being by transferring the nucleus from a human cell into an egg cell from which the nucleus has been removed for the purpose of implanting the resulting product in a uterus to initiate a pregnancy. (freerepublic.com)

Theoretically, tissues generated from cells cloned from a patient's own adult nucleus should not trigger an immune response, but it is possible that subtle differences caused by the foreign cytoplasm in the donor egg might cause a rejection response. (encyclopedia.com)

We will begin by formulating the best moral case for cloning-to-produce-children describing both the specific purposes it might serve and the philosophic and moral arguments made in its favor. (georgetown.edu)

Indeed, some of the arguments in favor of cloning-to-produce-children appeal to the deepest and most meaningful of our society's shared values. (georgetown.edu)

Many scientists believe that, at least in the near future, experiments in human cloning would involve many failures, miscarriages, stillbirths, and the birth of deformed babies. (encyclopedia.com)

The cloning of humans and other primates may not be possible with current techniques, U.S. scientists have found, after lab tests with cloned monkey cells showed inherent chaos during basic cell division. (abc.net.au)

The series will bring together leading scientists, ethicists, legal experts, science writers, and artists for discussions about existing and emerging human reproductive technologies from a variety of perspectives. (mtholyoke.edu)

We saw the false dawn most clearly with animal-human hybrids where the biotechnology industry, scientists, patient interest groups and science journalists on the UK nationals duped both the public and Parliament into legalising and licensing animal-human hybrid research to produce stem cells. (cmf.org.uk)

Siegel stated, "By sponsoring the World Court Initiative, HCPI seeks that the World Court strip away any vestige of legitimacy from potential human cloners, such as Zavos and Antinori. (innovations-report.com)

Human cloning advocate Dr. Panayiotis Zavos of the Andrology Institute of America testifies before the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources on Capitol Hill Wednesday, May 15, 2002. (zavos.org)

Professor Zavos and his supporters of cloning feel that with the careful continuation of research, the technological benefits of cloning clearly outweigh the possible social consequences. (zavos.org)

Dr.Panayiotis Zavos is recognized worldwide as a leading researcher and a strong authority in the areas of male reproductive medicine, gamete physiology, male infertility, Andrology and other forms of Assisted Reproductive Technologies. (zavos.org)

This has a negative effect on the ecnonomy because of all the money that is put in to research for cloning is a huge amount and the economy doesn't really benefit from it. (smore.com)

Yesterday, a week after President George W. Bush spoke out against all forms of human cloning, urging the Senate to support far-reaching legislation banning the practice, the cloning expert spoke to a packed room at UMass Lowell, discussing the history, mechanics and possibilities of one of the most controversial aspects of modern research. (uml.edu)

In his hourlong seminar yesterday, Robl opened wide the minds of biology students who were present, many of whom are interested in pursuing cloning research. (uml.edu)

This respect demands that any research that is inconsistent with the dignity of the human being is morally excluded. (vatican.va)

Personally, I do not think this produces significantly different moral issues to those pertaining to the creation of human embryos on which research is already permitted up till the blastocyst stage - equivalent to 14 days after fertilisation. (lynnejones.org.uk)

Eventually animal research may indicate that human cloning can be accomplished with no greater risk than in vitro fertilization posed when Louise Brown, the first "test-tube baby" was born in 1978. (encyclopedia.com)

Now, a new study by Rudolf Jaenisch and his colleagues at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, shows that the genomes of cloned mice are severely compromised. (genomenewsnetwork.org)

Think of what would not have been achieved had politics and religion stopped the scientific and education communities from affirming the biological links between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. (baltimoresun.com)

Organ cloning transplants can be very expensive after the whole process of finding the organs and the medical bills, from the surgeries and doctor appointments. (smore.com)

The unexpected plasticity of adult stem cells has made it possible to use this type of undifferentiated, self-renewing cell successfully for the healing of various human tissues and organs, (1) particularly in hearts damaged after myocardial infarction. (vatican.va)

Part 2 Is It Morally Acceptable to Buy and Sell Organs for Human Transplantation? (wiley.com)

One moral objection often heard is that cloned children would be not ends in themselves, but would be means for their parents' self-aggrandizement (not to mention the means of aggrandizement for Raelian beliefs). (readthehook.com)

Reuters) - The Vatican on Friday spelled out Roman Catholic moral teaching on a wide variety of scientific and medical procedures dealing with human reproduction. (reuters.com)

The prospect of cloning-to-produce-children raises a host of moral questions, among them the following: Could the first attempts to clone a human child be made without violating accepted moral norms governing experimentation on human subjects? (georgetown.edu)

Organ cloning transplants will affect our future and have a great impact because it will make it easier for people who significantly need and organ to receive it quicker and more efficiently without being put on a waiting list for one. (smore.com)

Yet, how definitive for humans could be evidence derived from rhesus monkeys, a species differing from humans with respect to oocyte size, form of implantation, and perhaps also response to micromanipulation procedures such as intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)? (zavos.org)

The researchers believe this is why - despite initial success in cloning monkeys - other laboratories have been unable to repeat the effort. (abc.net.au)

Schatten said his team was experimenting with ways to circumvent these cloning hurdles in monkeys. (abc.net.au)

The following background paper highlights BIO's perspective on the difference between using cloning technology to theoretically clone a human being and the beneficial uses of cloning technology in medicine and agriculture. (bio.org)

Socially, cloning could be an issue because the availability of technology to clone an individual would not be a great thing for society because it would be costly and it would be unsure as to who should have access to the type of technology that is being used to clone organisms. (smore.com)

In fact, the current (1990) Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act (HFE Act 1990) already allows the mixing of human and animal gametes (an ovum and a sperm) but this is after licensing for specific experiments and only for the purpose of testing the fertility or normality of sperm and requires that the result of the mixed gametes is destroyed no later than the two cell stage. (lynnejones.org.uk)

For example, if a man could not produce sperm, cloning would allow him to have a child who is "biologically related" to him. (georgetown.edu)

Thus far, these human replacement cells appear to function normally in vitro, raising the possibility for their application in the treatment of devastating chronic diseases affecting these tissue types. (bio.org)

Cloned cells could be used to create replacement tissue for diseased hearts, pancreatic cells for diabetics, treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, nerve cells for victims of spinal cord injuries, and skin cells for burn victims. (encyclopedia.com)

At one of the oddest press conferences ever, Brigitte Bosselier, a "bishop" in the Raelian UFO cult announced on December 27 that their cloning company, Clonaid, has succeeded in cloning a 7-pound baby girl named Eve. (readthehook.com)

However, Clonaid says that it has agreed to let an independent panel chosen by science journalist Michael Guillen determine whether Eve is in fact a clone of her mother. (readthehook.com)

Thus, the Holy See earnestly encourages investigations that are being carried out in the fields of medicine and biology, with the goal of curing diseases and of improving the quality of life of all, provided that they are respectful of the dignity of the human being. (vatican.va)

The use of normal, cloned human liver cells to test new drugs under development for certain toxic metabolites, for example, would reduce the danger of human clinical trials by eliminating such compounds before human testing. (bio.org)

Standing in front of the crowd, with television screens on either side imitating his every move, Robl took his audience through the history of cloning, from the first days in the 1980s, when researchers successfully began transplanting cell nuclei into eggs, to the suddenly real possibility of human cloning. (uml.edu)

Organ cloning is currently being used by many people who may suffer from any type of organ failure such as heart, kidney, liver, etc. (smore.com)

Only a small percentage of cloned animals survive to birth, and those that do are usually subject to a host of health problems including obesity, frequent bouts of pneumonia, and liver failure. (genomenewsnetwork.org)

On the other hand, the considerable emotional and financial investment that the parents of cloned children will be making indicates that these children will be very much wanted and treasured by their families. (readthehook.com)

But if the House bill passes, many important scientific questions about cloning will be left unanswered - and humanity will likely be the worse for it. (baltimoresun.com)

Arguments in defense of cloning-to-produce-children often address questions of reproduction, but they tend to focus on only a relatively narrow sliver of the goods and principles involved. (georgetown.edu)